 Partnering Belgian and French audiovisual networks, innovative SMEs and acamdemic institutes, MediaMap aims at developing innovation in the area of audiovisual content productions circulating on the Internet for TV channels as well as for Web 3.0 sites.
 VLDB09 (Very Large Data Bases 2009) - USETIM (Using Search Engine Technology for Information Management). For information management, databases offer precise, controlled access to data. But, they do not offer the easy-to-use search capabilities that most knowledge workers manipulate daily on sites such as Google. Access to information contained in databases is more difficult, and more restricted. One solution to this information bottleneck is to let search engines support the brunt of the work, by offloading information from the database into alternative infrastructures, such as that provided by search engine technology. Many business applications such as search, report generation and data analysis might be performed more efficiently on the replicated data without involving the native database technology, e.g. transactions. These offloaded databases, retaining some of their structure, can be recombined, mashed up, creating one-off, possibly disposable, databases, while the primary data is safe in the original database. This workshop will examine the limits and potentialities of use information retrieval and search engine technology for information management (IM) applications.
 Funded by the French Noational research Agency, in partnersship with INRIA and University of Caen, the R2I project aims at conveiving methods for interactive search of images in very large datasets (typically one billion images).
 CHORUS (Coordinated Approach to the European Effort on Audiovisual Search Engines) is a European Union-funded consortium formed to foster the communication of strategies, policies, and best practices across leading institutions, organizations, and consultancies in the multimedia content search engine industry. Consortium members, such as Exalead, are required to possess the broad range of intellectual and technological expertise and track record for successful execution, policy development, and cooperation across national, EU, and international boundaries.
 Carried by Exalead and developed in partnership with Synapse Development and Priberam, a Portuguese company, within the frame of the European research program EUROSTARS, the project OpenSem aims to unify and make available in web form the best semantic web technology in the most popular languages in the world. Funded by OSEO, the OpenSem project aims to launch the best of its technologies, with a pragmatic approach, while pursuing a clear objective: place the end users in direct contact with the wealth of content on the web. It is part of a transversal project to develop services that extract content and allow semantic analysis and indexing, while developing rich user interfaces. Operating on an open platform from project partners, these services will be accessible directly to users (bloggers, surfers, etc.) and also through business applications.
 Funded by the French National Research Agency, the WebContent Project is focused on developing a flexible and generic platform for content management using semantic Web technologies to demonstrate their effectiveness when applied to real-life economic and societal issues. Exalead, with its expertise in advanced semantic tools, is a key member of the project team and will help explore applications in the aeronautical economics, food safety, strategic intelligence, and seismic event arenas.
 As a member of the ALIS (Automated Legal Intelligent System) Consortium, Exalead joins top tier academics, legal professionals, and private organizations in this European Union-funded research program to address how science and technology can be used to improve the operational efficiencies within the European Union's legal system. With the consortium's focus on artificial intelligence, game theory, semantic modelling applications, Exalead brings its expertise in information access platform development to the team.
 Citizen Media is an European research project to enable non-professional users to co-create networked applications and experiences with user-generated content. This project features new ways on how to exploit the huge amount of user-generated content in innovative ways to support people in their daily lives and how technology will enable social change to strongly involve users for co-creating networked applications. This work will introduce new concepts that may modify the role of stakeholders in the classical value chain for content delivery.
 Quaero is an advanced R&D program focused on the analysis, classification and usage of digital multimedia content for professionals and consumers. This 5-year, collaborative initiative includes 24 industry and university partners, with a total budget of approximately 200 million euros (99 million in public financing from France matched by an equal contribution from project participants). Centered around technologies for the automated treatment of text, speech, music, images and video, Quaero seeks to develop new ways of addressing information access challenges in the face of the digital revolution. The effort revolves around five axes including the digitization and enrichment of content for libraries and publishers; personalized, multi-device distribution of video; better targeting for advertising; and multimedia search for the Web via the Exalead search engine.
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